OKCupid Partners with Coinbase to Accept Bitcoin for Online Dating

With over 4 million active users (and 7 million registered), OKCupid is a very popular Internet dating site that includes those annoying quizzes that everyone seems to love so much—and now Coinbase has announced a partnership with the dating site to enable acceptance of Bitcoin. This has been a big few months for the cryptocurrency with numerous businesses starting to see it as a viable exchange of value. This is even after last week when the currency reached a valuation high of $266 only to collapse below $100—currently Bitcoin value sits much lower near $70. Amid the sites that accept Bitcoin are Mega , Reddit, WordPress.com , and many others. While currently bitcoin values run the gamut in volatility this has been seen as a problem for owners accepting the cryptocurrency, but payment processors such as Coinbase and BitPay help mitigate that by allowing near-immediate li...